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The vegetable garden again furnished us all kinds of vege- 

 tables and plenty of them during the season. It paid well for 

 the work and care. As we had many rains during the summer 

 months irrigation was not much needed for the best growth of 

 plants. The root-cellar is now well filled with vegetables for use 

 during winter. 



If there was anything worth while seeing at our place dur- 

 ing the season, it was our floral planting. The artistic floral and 

 foliage designs on our lawns were most beautiful. There were 

 flowers of many kinds in profusion at all times. We admired in 

 particular the peonies, dahlias, cannas, lilies and gladioli; of 

 shrubs, the lilacs, spireas and mock orange. 



This year has brought us meager returns not only in horti- 

 culture, but in agriculture as well, for the labor and care bestowed 

 on our orchards and fields. Another year may bless us with an 

 abundance of fruit. 



Warning. White Pine Trees Being Destroyed. — A disease known 

 as the White Pine Blister Rust threatens the destruction of all the white 

 pine and other five leaved pine trees in the United States. 



It has already appeared in Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massa- 

 chusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, 

 Wisconsin, Minnesota and in Quebec and Ontario. 



There is no known cure for it. It kills the white pines infected and it 

 spreads steadily. The spores or seeds are blown from diseased pines to 

 currant and gooseberry bushes. They germinate on the leaves of these 

 bushes. The leaves then produce millions of spores or seeds of the disease 

 which are blown by the wind from the bushes to the pines, and even those 

 several miles distant from the nearest bushes are infected, become diseased 

 and die. 



The white pines in New England are worth $75,000,000; in the Lake 

 States $96,000,000; in western States $60,000,000; and in the National 

 Forests $30,000,000,000, or a total of $261,000,000. 



Unless the ravages of the White Pine Blister Rust are stopped these 

 pines will be destroyed. 



The American Forestry Association urges people in all the regions 

 where the disease has been discovered to destroy at once all currant and 

 gooseberry bushes, diseased pines, and others exposed to infection. This 

 will help to stop the spread of the disease. — American Forestry Association, 

 Washington, D. C. 



